List of Contributors

Alan Harris (BCom, BSc, MBA, ACCA), Managing Director, Atlantic Film Group

Alan is Managing Director of Atlantic Film Productions Limited, a specialist company that is involved in development and production of feature films.

Some of the features with which Atlantic has been involved include Imagining Argentina (with Myriad Pictures starring Antonio Bandaras and Emma Thompson), Citizen Verdict (starring Jerry Springer) and Nicholas Nickleby (with MGM Studios).

Alan was formerly Financial Director at Grosvenor Park Media where he completed several hundred million pounds worth of feature film transactions and advised on the setting-up of many international co-productions.

Alan is an expert on international film structuring and financing and has lectured at such prestigious venues as UCLA, Screen Producers Guild of Australia, The Luxembourg Film Finance Forum, The UK Producers Association for Cinema and Television and the New Zealand Screen Producers and Directors Association.

Rob Sherr

Rob is the Commercial Banking Manager and an Assistant General Manager at Bank Leumi (UK) plc. He has been in banking for 27 years during which time he has largely been involved with commercial lending. He joined Bank Leumi in 1999 as Head of Media, having spent the previous nine years working at Coutts & Co. In 1993 he became one of the founding managers of Coutts' Media Banking Office.

Under Rob's guidance, Bank Leumi participated in the development of completion bonded finance to video games developers and to structuring the advance finance of net producer benefit under sale and leaseback.

Lucy Walker

Lucy Walker joined Osborne Clarke in 1998 and is currently an associate in the banking and finance group. Lucy specializes in film finance together with general finance, leasing and regulatory work (including issues relating to cards and payment systems, and the regulatory issues affecting consumer credit and banking and financial services).

She has acted for Barclays Bank plc on a series of structured film finance transactions and has also advised both funds and producers on a wide spectrum of production and distribution finance arrangements, fundings and sale and leaseback transactions.